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Peshtigo Fire

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Description: Families huddled in a field in the Sugar Bushes, attempting to escape the Peshtigo Fire.
Photograph

Aviation-Minded Governor

Date: 1928
Description: Walter J. Kohler, Sr., (partially hidden, wearing a straw hat and with a flower in his lapel) makes a stop to which he had flown in his airplane, the "Vill...
Photograph

Marinette County Farm

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view of two women working in a large vegetable garden. A long building, perhaps a barn, and a smaller building are on the left. In the background ...
Photograph

Corn Picking

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Description: Woman picking corn on a farm.
Photograph

Marinette View

Date: 1887
Description: Elevated view of Marinette looking toward the mouth of the river from the tower of City Hall. Fences, fields, and industrial buildings are in the foregroun...
Photograph

Flint Corn

Date: 09 05 1895
Description: A man is driving a McCormick harvester with a team of horses, cutting and binding a crop of flint ("Indian") corn, on the farm of S.D.D. Newton, five miles...
Photograph

Lakeside House on Green Bay

Date: 1909
Description: Scene near what may be Coleman, perhaps on the shore of Green Bay on Lake Michigan. View through tall grass towards a man standing next to an automobile lo...
Photograph

Marinette Harbor

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Description: Aerial view of harbor. In the foreground is a lighthouse and breakwaters. Bridges cross the harbor, and there are factory and industrial buildings near the...
Photograph

Paper Mill

Date: 07 1936
Description: View across field towards large smokestack towering above the complex of buildings at the Niagara paper mill. On the far right, water is flowing through th...
Photograph

The Population Explosion

Date: 1959
Description: A bird's nest with eggs, on the wheel of a vintage hay rake.

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